Emjay

Where is Emjay?

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:07:11 -0800

~ When I left DC on Thursday the temperature was in the 40's (below 10 C)...... when I landed in Sydney, Saturday morning, it was 100!! (38C). I got heat stroke walking from the terminal to the car - of course we walked further in the sunn...

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Tourists & Thanksgiving ...

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:06:11 -0800

~ I love tourists ... really I do because they help my local economy but.. - please stand to the right on the metro (train) escalators so that we locals, with things to do, can walk past on the left. There is even a sign asking you. - and w...

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Crime & Congregations....

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:02:45 -0800

~ The population of Washington DC is around 592,000. (and there are an estimated 12,000 homeless). According to the DC MPD website there have been 127 homicides since January 1st 2009 (to Friday 11/19). On top of those Homicides there have ...

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Remember December - almost final result.....

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:16:20 -0800

Remember my Diet Aids .... Remember December ? Well here I am just over a week away from December so I thought it was time to check in. I have lost 16 lbs (about 7.3 kg) since I posted those signs all around the kitchen. With one week...

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A big Minus ......

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:23:36 -0800

` I speak English and Americans speak English but there were times when I first moved here when I was nearly in tears because I could not understand what someone was telling me. This was especially so when dealing with public transport employees...

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When I win the lottery

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:09:46 -0800

I want this house and car: Photo taken only half a mile from the depressing building made up of boxes........

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All Lonely Together..

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:45:07 -0800

~ Today, while we were walking, I was thinking of a comment Apolline had left on my Missing Strangers post about social movements and urbanization. We turned a corner and here was exactly what I had been imagining loneliness all together to loo...

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Missing Strangers...

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:16:02 -0800

` Do you ever wonder what might have happened to people who are essentially strangers to us? Next door to my office building is a retirement & assisted living place - it used to have the word "Alzheimer's" in the name and we joked about jus...

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What I want to know is ....

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:14:18 -0800

` With us all diligently slapping hand sanitizer on our hands to kill 99.99% of everything that might make us sick..... where do all the killed germs go? These have nothing to do with dead things on hands - I just thought they were pretty. ...

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Zooming in on terror

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:22:18 -0800

~ I am scared of squirrels. Irrational I know and I'm annoyed at myself for being afraid of such a cute looking little thing. I'd never seen a "real" squirrel until my first day here and when I saw them I raved over their sweet little faces an...

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